Alito: Guilty of padding his resume with the name of some club he’d heard about.
'Earlier, Specter said staffers had examined records of a controversial Princeton University alumni group once cited by Alito in a job application, but had found no mention of Alito.
…Alito, President Bush's nominee to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, listed membership in Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) on a 1985 application for a job in the Reagan administration. Democrats said the conservative group resisted admissions of women and minorities, and they cited statements in its magazine that expressed racist, sexist and homophobic views.
Alito has repudiated the statements, saying he deplored those views and would not associate with any group that held them. He said he could not remember much about the group by way of explaining why he listed it, other than that he had been concerned during his Princeton days about efforts by some students to kick ROTC programs off campus.
Specter said committee staff members and representatives of Kennedy finished examining the files at 2 a.m. today, reviewing more than four boxes of documents concerning CAP.
"Judge Alito's name never appeared in any document," Specter said. It was not mentioned in any letters to or from the group's founder or executive director, did not appear on any canceled checks for subscriptions, was nowhere to be found on any articles, lists of board members or contributors, and was not in any minutes or attendance records from CAP meetings," Specter said.'
The Washington Post
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